Healing Brave ✨

Looking for a whole universe of hope, heart, and healing? This is the board for you. It's full of my words, blog posts, pages from my books, poetry prints & more inspiration to help you heal better... your own way, from the worst things you've been through. You'll get encouragement to keep going, down-to-earth wisdom, meditations, poems, affirmations, prayers, rituals & ideas to inspire how you carry on. And make something new out of this life. You can do that, because: you're magic.
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18 Poems & Quotes about Grief for the Holidays
Together, it's easier to make space for grief and for the love and joy that it stems from, which is the same love it inevitably returns to, if we allow that spaciousness. May these quotes about grief comfort you, validate what you feel, and bring a little more light to the holidays. You belong in the light, too. #griefandloss #lifeafterloss #griefsupport #griefquotes #healingprocess #healingpoems #healingquotes
Heart Conversations Poem: The Full Version
This standalone verse you might've seen circling the internet: I have not heard your voice in years, but my heart has conversations with you every day. I call it Heart Conversations, an ode to the intimate dialogue that carries on after someone we love dies. I thought it time to revisit this poem and that conversation. #heartconversations #healingpoetry #healingpoem #griefandloss #griefsupport #griefpoem #openyourheart #griefjourney
Himalayan Salt Lamp Meditation // A Nighttime Ritual
I originally wrote this Himalayan salt lamp meditation for my third book, Sleep Rituals. Not only is a salt lamp a helpful focal point for meditation, its warm glow encourages the brain to switch into "night mode.” Let's combine the elements of ritual and sensory delight for some well-deserved peace of mind tonight. #meditationpractice #saltlampmeditation #healingrituals #nighttimerituals #sleeprituals #meditationideas
16 Affirmations to Get You Through Hard Days
By giving meaning to hardship through words, you can structure a life around your values, your strengths, and your intentions. You get to choose how you show up. I created these affirmations to help us fully inhabit ourselves and our more difficult experiences, so we can tell a story of strength and perseverance. #healingaffirmations #trustyourself #onedayatatime #selfhealing #selfcompassion #youarestrong #innerstrength
A Letter to My Future Self
The newness of another year and another passion inspired me to write a letter to my future self. About all the things I hope for that person: healing, fulfillment, self-companionship. It's an enlightening practice because it sheds light on what matters most this year and right now. May this letter be what you needed to read today. #notetoself #lettertomyself #healingprocess #trusttheprocess #healingjourney #selfcompassion #selfhealing #livewithintention #believeinyourself
The Gift of Self-Care When You're Grieving
Trying to take good care of yourself while you're grieving is no small act of kindness. It is a very large gesture of respect for yourself as you process your grief, and for the people you've lost and the ones who are still here. Over the years I've learned that how well I take care of myself is a reflection of my values -- values like compassion and dependability. Values that became much more important in my life after loss. #griefandloss #griefsupport #healingprocess #lifeafterloss #selfcare
Talking to Grief, a Poem
My favorite poems about grief do either one of two things: express my own experience in words in a way I never could or call on me to think differently about my experience. It’s a special thing when a poem can do both. Today I’m paying forward a beautiful grief poem written by Denise Levertov. May it call up your compassion the way it does for me. #healingpoems #griefpoems #griefandloss #lifeafterloss #griefsupport #healingprocess #healingheart #trusttheprocess #openhearts
Be Easy on Yourself: 15 Affirmations to Lighten up and Flow
You could probably use a break. Surely, a touch of grace. If that sounds like a good idea, use these healing affirmations to lighten your load: and be easy on yourself. You deserve that much. #healingaffirmations #innerpeace #emotionalhealing #mentalhealthsupport #selfhealing #innerwork #emotionalintelligence
A One-Minute Mindfulness Meditation for Peace & Calm
Committing to a daily meditation practice is hard. That’s why I love the idea of a one-minute mindfulness meditation: you can practice anywhere, anytime. Try this when you need some more peace in your life. #innerpeace #mindfulnesspractice #mindfulnessmeditation #stressrelief
Self-Talk When You Can’t Control Other People: 18 Affirmations to Keep You Moving Forward
You’re not supposed to be able to control how other people live their lives — that’s their thing, not yours. I wrote these affirmations to help us both keep our focus on what matters most in difficult situations and conversations: what we CAN control. And what we can control is enough. #selftalk #positiveaffirmations #selfhealing #healingprocess #relationshipgoals #innerpeace #innerwork #emotionalintelligence #mentalhealthsupport
Burn Your Thoughts: A Candle Gazing Ritual for Letting Go
Here’s an enchanting candle gazing #meditation that’s easy to do and doesn’t require a whole lot from you. It’s from my book Sleep Rituals, reworked and given an appropriate name: Burn Your Thoughts. Give yourself that mental space — to clear away whatever isn’t letting you be fully in the moment, or fully in your life. #lettinggo #healingrituals #healingprocess #emotionalwellbeing #mentalhealthsupport
3 TED Talks: On Suicide, Processing Grief, and Life After Cancer
It’s worth 15 minutes of your time to consider someone else’s take on the hardest things they’ve been through. Things like suicide loss or a fatal diagnosis. Your attention, shone on matters many people avoid because they’re uncomfortable, is a gift. These TED Talks on grief and living again are worth a listen. #suicideloss #griefandloss #healingjourney #griefsupport #lifeafterloss
A Healing Poem about Loss and Holding on to Love
If you know the kind of pain that doesn't leave, read this poem about loss. It'll help you stop fighting against the mystery and soften into it instead. At least, for a moment. One moment of peace at a time... you deserve that much. #healingpoetry #healingprocess #loveandloss #griefsupport #griefpoem
An Empowering Affirmation for Stress-Relief and Self-Mastery
Read this affirmation for stress-relief if you're having one of those days. If you forgot that you're more powerful than the negative thoughts you think. Also a fact: most of the things you worry about never happen, and if they do happen, you can make it through them. #youareenough #youarestrong #healingaffirmations #selfmastery #innerwork #selflovepractice
Mantras for Honoring Mother Earth (and Yourself)
I think it’s important to fall in love with the world as it is before you set out to make a difference in it. One of the best ways to do that is through the words you use every day. These #mantras can be part of your meditations, but more powerful than that — they can be part of your everyday life. They can help you think in new ways, can bring you back to your own heartbeat on a stressful day. It's a practice of honoring the world around you and within. #healingmantras #trusttheprocess